Developer and IT Professional KB articles have started being moved from the …

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In order for the correct user base to be able to see all the support information they need in the places they visit anyway, Microsoft today started to move its Developer and IT Professional primary support content, also known as Knowledge Base (KB) articles, from support.microsoft.com to MSDN and TechNet, respectively. The average user will likely not be affected by this change. Even though the relevant websites that provide support for IT Pros and developers will now be directed to TechNet or MSDN, content is still staying on the Microsoft.com domain since msdn.com and technet.com started to redirect in 2008.

The transition starts today with the pilot launch of 20 support articles in English and Japanese. No later than February 28, 2009, when Microsoft verifies that major search engines have picked up these changes in search results, over 55,000 articles in Chinese-Traditional, Chinese-Simplified, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese-Brazil, Russian, and Spanish will be moved over. It should be noted that this does not affect any security or hotfix articles, though any IT Pro or developer content will eventually make the jump.